Islam and Ra

[Patrick]

... Unfortunately, reality sometimes comes along and smacks you in the face..

Then we present the other cheek ?

I understand the intent but the concept is born in Martyrdom, IMO.
It seems to be love at the cost of wisdom.
If someone is running at you with a chainsaw, wisdom would dictate removing yourself from their vicinity.
I believe Jesus was an example of unconditional love, not wisdom.

If we look at Muhammad we can see that he wasn't campaigning for the "turn the other cheek" philosophy.
He took over with an army and this is someone spoken of as "spreading more intelligible distortion of the Law of One".
To me it means that it was in a form that people of that time, could comprehend. It doesn't mean it was perfect or even STO. It means people could grasp the Law of One better.
We all know the Law of One applies to both STO and STS...I feel it's likely, given the context of Muhammad's methods of implementation, that there was mixed STS and STO information,  like most religion.

All good points.

In this particular instance, which Prometheus was talking about, it is life or reality that smacks you.  It's your catalysts that smacks you.  So then it's presenting the other cheek to fate. But even that could be an unbalanced action depending on your intent.

Questioner: I will attempt to make an analogy. If an animal, shall I say a bull in a pen, attacks you because you have wandered into his pen, you get out of his way rapidly but you do not blame him. Or, you do not have much of an emotional response other than the fear response that he might damage you. However, if you encounter another self in his territory and he attacks you, your response may be more of an emotional nature creating physical bodily responses. Am I correct in assuming that when your response to the animal and to the other-self seeing both as the Creator and loving both and understanding their action in attacking you is the action of their free will then you have balanced yourself correctly in this area? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is basically correct. However, the balanced entity will see in the seeming attack of an other-self the causes of this action which are, in most cases, of a more complex nature than the cause of the attack of the second-density bull as was your example. Thus this balanced entity would be open to many more opportunities for service to a third-density other-self.

So depending on what life throws at you, presenting the other cheek could be a reasonable response. But if the catalyst is a bull chasing you, a wiser action could be of great benefit.